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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Ava Skoog's comment | |
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| Oct 12 11:07:25 | Meager Genesis | ♥ 1 | Very nice and relaxing! The music building up is done very well (and the track is lovely), and all the lights are so pretty. Enjoyed this very much! | |
| Oct 12 12:02:50 | 55m 25s | TwT | ♥ 1 | Even if it's as abstract as this, it's hard for me to let go of the image of actual real-world breeding atrocities like this, so the framing wasn't for me, but in terms of mechanics and gameplay you've obviously done a good job at engaging the player. At some point after acquiring Isla Nublar I never really managed to get any further or unlock anything else, but I managed to retain over 90% approval, so that felt like I did manage to reach some goal. Have to admit my hand really started hurting by then too, so I had to quit, haha. Didn't really have time to read the info panels when things got intense but things were fairly self-explanatory after the intro so maybe they weren't necessary at all. Solid and engaging otherwise! |
| Oct 12 12:21:59 | 19m 09s | S.W.N | ♥ 1 | That was so satisfying! Didn't feel all that much in a building mood after just going through three days of LD myself, but honestly, the editor is just a really amazing bonus on top of what was already a really nice and solid game to play. The tutorial levels were great! Everything felt very responsive and good, except the directional thing which you've now fixed of course. Very snappy, also in terms of animations and general flow. The death reset is nice and quick. Music and audio are really catchy. Character being the number indicator is lovely. And lots of nice touches everywhere! |
| Oct 12 12:36:47 | 14m 48s | Lost in Translation | ♥ 2 | Finally got around to it! Was particularly interested in playing this one, since I considered the same idea before I decided to go ahead with my gardening game instead. As an avid conlanger I couldn't resist. Bit easy (would've been fun to see at least a few grammatical differences from English to figure out), but I love this sort of thing nonetheless! <3 The silent film presentation is a lot of fun and the noise is a nice touch. Music is great, but I see you opted out of the audio category, so I guess it's stock? Still, good choice! The world needs more languagey games. |
| Oct 12 12:53:34 | 16m 47s | Will o the wisp | ♥ 0 | :D :D :D :D Cuteness overload. I'm really liking how many slow-going and therapeutic-feeling games this theme has brought out. Was very soothing just gliding around and collecting my little friends. The reference at the end was very apt, because I was going to say this is kind of like marching the chickens in Majora, except with much nicer music and at a much better pace, haha. My only criticism is that the sound when activating the platforms at the end could've been a bit more harmonious with the music. Had a lovely relaxing time completing this. <3 |
| Oct 13 16:02:09 | 27h 08m | Newborn AI | ♥ 1 | That was exciting! Would have been cool to have some music to ramp up the tension even more, but it was great nonetheless. Always fun to see something a bit unconventional like this. Loved the Jurassic Park vibes I got from the 3D navigation too. π I think this would be really cool to play as a longer game! |
| Oct 13 16:46:48 | 44m 39s | Nothing Left | ♥ 1 | That was neat! Loved how many different-looking characters you were able to get in. Nice music and sprites. Do agree with previous commenters that it got a bit slow. Some of the partnerships seemed less useful than others (not a lot of people seemed interested in food, for example) so it would've been cool to be able to cancel them. Very charming overall! Love that walk cycle. And cool to see Godot! π |
| Oct 13 17:03:09 | 16m 21s | Turtle's Quest | ♥ 1 | I liked it! A little rough around the edges, but very, very cute. Loved the characters. Art overall is really good. Music got a bit grating, would've been nice to have at least a few more notes. I think I managed to softlock it on my first playthrough by first giving the shovel to the warrior and then the sword and then I couldn't cut my way to the balloonist, who I hadn't noticed before. But I got it on a replay! I think a longer game done in this style could be really neat. π |
| Oct 13 19:32:12 | 2h 29m | NSFB: Not Safe For Bugs! | ♥ 1 | Ahhh I love it so much and it looks and sounds so great, but I don't feel fair rating it before I really understand it properly, so would love some help figuring it out and then I'll play it again! π° I read the instructions and played several times, but I don't... get it, and I feel so thick! Should make it clear that I have almost no experience playing strategy games like Fire Emblem etc either so if there is some sort of language being taken for granted in the mechanics, I just don't have it. π I don't really understand when being near a lizard means I attack it or it attacks me, and I don't really understand when a lizard steps on a green square turns the square blue and when it kills the lizard, so I'm just kind of clicking around and getting lucky or unlucky without grokking why. :C PLS HALP |
| Oct 13 19:43:43 | 11m 31s | Dive Dog | ♥ 1 | Cutest pupper ever. π Already told you I'm really bad at original Minesweeper and so also really bad at this, but that's on me! Big props for making it work on mobile. Fits well there. And wow, I just learnt what the flags are for in the original game. Hahaha. Now I feel silly for never realising. |
| Oct 14 17:49:40 | 22h 05m | World Collector | ♥ 1 | Superb in terms of graphics, audio and overall game design, probably some of the best I've seen in any LD (and even in its own right, LD game or not)! The only real "negative" is that it's not the biggest standout to me in terms of theme interpretation, but it's still good there too! Great atmosphere with a cute ending and some nice platforming as well, even if the main deal is the puzzliness. So good! |
| Oct 14 17:52:40 | 3m 00s | Mariposa | ♥ 0 | Solid entry! Like Bauke said, the begging animation is good. The twist is obviously a lot of fun. Good atmosphere/mood. Looks and sounds very nice. Like the wind! |
| Oct 14 17:54:41 | 2m 01s | Revelator | ♥ 1 | Very nice! The gameplay itself is quite simple but the best part is probably just guessing what the pictures are after seeing just a little bit and the excitement you experience after revealing more of them. Using recognisable stuff from old games that a lot of people will be familiar with worked very well for that, almost like a quiz thingy! Liked it! |
| Oct 19 11:44:14 | 113h 49m | The Runner | ♥ 1 | I'm weak for mouth sound effects. Sold me on this. I'm not partial to graphic games, so this was a nice variation on presenting combat. Simple but fun with lots of little nice touches! |
| Oct 19 11:51:00 | 6m 46s | nothing but everything | ♥ 1 | I liked this a lot. Always enjoy seeing something different. Don't know if the deal with the blank papers can really be attributed to an old teacher of yours, or if they were just fictional and this was really your own idea, or if it goes back even further to someone else, but it's a nice sentiment wherever it comes from. For such a simple game it has a lot of atmosphere. Great work! |
| Oct 29 12:21:04 | 240h 30m | Pandamonium | ♥ 1 | Looks and sounds great! The music is really catchy and the character seems to strut along to the beat. It's already been said, but the controllers were kinda floaty and it was easy to get stuck. It felt like the platforming sections weren't really designed for the size of the jumps and strides. But you could definitely tighten that up and turn this into something really cool! The beetle shooting fricking beams at me caught me so off guard! π± |
| Oct 29 12:23:45 | 2m 41s | Detective Pawsome | ♥ 1 | Had a lot of fun playing this when I caught some of the streams! It really makes good use of that very particular medium by making it a really exciting race between chatters! Really nice presentation too. It could have literally just been the letters and the hints as text and it would still have been a lot of fun, but you went all the way with great graphics and audio and even a silly little story. Learnt a bunch of obscure words too as I went to look up every word I had never heard before. Really well done! |
| Oct 29 12:26:20 | 2m 35s | TidePool | ♥ 1 | Dang it, I was finally getting around to this but it's broken and won't run on Mac. ;-; Any others had this issue? |
| Oct 29 12:31:34 | 5m 14s | Light Reading | ♥ 1 | I finally got around to rating this! Like I said on stream, the writing is really captivating. Which is obviously important for a text based game. You really nailed that! I couldn't hear any sound, so I wonder if that was an issue on my end or if you just forgot to opt out of the audio category. I do feel the sentiment expressed by some that too much text can be intimidating but that the writing also really sucked them in once they got into it. I wonder if it would've been a good idea to start with much less text as a hook and built up along the way? Great stuff, anyhow! |
| Oct 29 12:40:07 | 8m 33s | The Adventurous King | ♥ 0 | Took my time to get around to rating this! π°Like I said in a steam chat, it really is amazing how much there is to do in this game for a jam game. Can't imagine how you managed to pull that off as a solo act. Lots of characters, looks really nice. Reminds me of a Flash game, in a very good way! Blur in the distance is a nice touch. Plays well with all the helpful companions and the sense of progress. Super well done! |
| Oct 29 12:56:09 | 16m 02s | Seedling | ♥ 1 | That was such a nice experience. Thank you for that. So many people, wow! Maybe I'm biased for making something similar, but I do like stuff like this. Where you can just get away for a while and have a good time. But still with goals and progression, of course. Nice touch with the zoomout. Forgot to put that in mine. Overall high scores from me! |
| Oct 29 12:58:55 | 2m 46s | Untitled Goop Game | ♥ 1 | Very solid puzzly game! Action game? Bit of both? Love this type of thing, anyhow. At least to me the connection to the theme feels a *bit* loose, but hey, it resulted in a very good game! Difficult to really say much more. It played well, it looks nice, I didn't have any issues, and I enjoyed it a bunch! |
| Oct 29 13:02:31 | 3m 36s | Upgrade | ♥ 1 | Really cool. Love puzzly stuff and unlocking things like this bit by bit feels really good. Very nice presentation too. Polished and solid. Enjoyed a lot! You should be proud! |
| Oct 29 13:10:33 | 8m 02s | Mage in Exile | ♥ 2 | Solid! I am absolutely baffled at how huge this game is. Amazing of you two to pull that off in a jam, even as a small team. So many areas and enemies and items and the crafting, and, and, and..! Wow. And a funny story to boot. Not usually my time of game, but that's on me, and this was objectively really cool and well done. Very difficult in some of the enemy corridors, but it seems the favoured strategy is to stock up on healing food and run for it, BotW-style. That works too! Really well done! |